Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

There is a strange statement in the Talmud regarding Moshiach. When the Talmud wishes to describe Moshiach, the man who will ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade ... that 100 million sesterces (a type of coin) drained from the empire every year due to luxury ...

At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria) in the second century CE, an inscription shows 90 million sesterces in goods were imported in just one month. And in the first century BCE, Roman ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Inside these chambers, the team found 10 mummies, two of them gilded. Other discoveries include an alabaster bust of ...

This Friday is Jumaa’ al Hazeeneh (Arabic for Good Friday), and to Palestinian Christians this phrase is pregnant with ...

By the time Julius Caesar popped over in 54BC ... much of the London area would have been covered in trees. But these ancient woodlands would have been subtly different to the greenery we see ...